Globalizing Afghanistan - Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building

Informationen zum Autor Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess, eds. Klappentext International scholars, activists, and aid workers address Afghanistan and the current phase of the U.S.-led War on Terror and place Afghanistan within global networks of power and influence, highlighting that nation's role in long term issues of nation-b Zusammenfassung A kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power! influence! and representation in which it is immersed Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Globalizing Afghanistan / Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess 1 It's the Opium, Stupid: Afghanistan, Globalization, and Drugs / Nigel C. Gibson 31 Afghanistan in a Globalized World: A Longer View / Rodney J. Steward 51 The "Afghan Beat": Pukhtoon Journalism and the Afghan War / Altaf Ullah Khan 79 Veiled Motives: Women's Liberation and the War in Afghanistan / Gwen Bergner 95 Transnational Feminism and the Women's Rights Agenda in Afghanistan / Maliha Chishti & Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims 117 Global Frames on Afghanistan: The Iranian Mediation of Afghanistan in International Art House Cinema after September 11, 2001 / Kamran Rastegar 145 Conclusion: The Current Amazement / Afghanistan, Terror, and Theory / Imre Szeman 165 Bibliography 187 Contributors 201 Index 205

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• Authors: Zubeda Jalalzai, Zubeda Jefferess Jalalzai
• Assisted by: Zubeda Jalalzai (Editor), David Jefferess (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780822350149
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5014-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Duke University Press; American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int; American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education